Hauled vs Haled - What's the difference?

hauled | haled |

As verbs the difference between hauled and haled

is that hauled is past tense of haul while haled is past tense of hale.

hauled

English

Verb

(head)

(haul)

haul

English

Verb

(en verb)

To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.

To pull or draw something heavy.

* Denham

Some dance, some haul the rope.

* Alexander Pope

Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.

To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.

to haul logs to a sawmill

* Ulysses S. Grant

When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.

(nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.

* Cook

I hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.

(nautical, of the wind) To shift fore (more towards the bow).

(figuratively) To pull.

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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

Derived terms

* haulable * haul down

Antonyms

* (to steer closer to the wind) veer * (to shift aft) veer

Derived terms

* haulage * hauler * haulier * long-haul * longhauling

Noun

(en noun)

A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.

An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.

The robber's haul was over thirty items.

The trawler landed a ten-ton haul .

A pulling with force; a violent pull.

(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.

Collectively, all of the products bought on a shopping trip.

A haul video

Anagrams

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haled

English

Verb

(head)

(hale)

Anagrams

hale

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Health, welfare.

* Spenser

All heedless of his dearest hale .

Etymology 2

Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

* Jonathan Swift

Last year we thought him strong and hale .

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

"Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

Antonyms

* unhale

Usage notes

* Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".

Etymology 3

From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).

Verb

(hal)

To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

* , II.6:

For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.

* 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :

The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:

They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

Anagrams

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